Sujet

A red clay Negro cemetery, Bethel Hill High School, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

A red clay Negro cemetery. No attempts to lay out crops. The graves in rows with narrow spaces between. This cemetery was a solid space of red clay washed by the rains. Even the gravestones are colored red by the red clay beaten against them by rain. On such markers as are cut there was misspelling as "bon" for "born," "die such and such a time twenty one ears." Bethel Hill High School, Person County, North Carolina.

Date

1939

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A51_484

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,1Mo (2,2Mo) / 42,0cm x 29,9cm / 4960 x 3530 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather South countryside library work red economics worker country raining rain Southern color row death North Carolina photography rustic poor poverty location century cemetery grave graves gravestone gravestones graveyard thirties clay concept depression negative recession African American African-American B&W afro-american Library of Congress racism spelling United States of America Colour black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression rural workers American America US USA rural life TGN photograph united states Regionalism Congressional Library Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc Person County